Monday 19th August Supplies were running low so we headed to the local shopping centre to stock up. We spent some money, bought some lunch (yay donut!), and then headed back to the van… Now, Tom had driven us there, however, on our way back to the van, he turned to me. His face began…
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Week 8 – Cape Tribulation Explorations
Monday 12th August The week began with a drive from Cloncurry to Townsville, with a detour to the Billabong Sanctuary. It was a small park with super cute animals! I started the adventure off with a quick cuddle and smile with a koala! It was so adorable, surprisingly heavy, and surprisingly sharp claws (but not…
Week 7 – A Herd Of Cows
Monday 5th August So it turns out the wiring for the interior lights was a bit dodgy… hence the plunge into darkness last night! Tom the mechanic was on the case, so we popped to the shops, got the supplies and “Ta Dah!” we can see inside again! We also realised we weren’t going to…
Week 6 – The Jumbo Jigsaw
Monday 29th July As we’re going to be here for a while, we came to the conclusion that we needed something stimulating and productive to do; a jigsaw! A massive 1000 piece jigsaw! Today’s progress was sorting the pieces into edges and middle bits and beginning the outside. We also had to do the usual…
Week 5 – Van Troubles Afoot
Monday 22nd July What a victorious day! We found a van part! Hooray! Now for the bad news, it’s down south in Adelaide – let’s see how the postal service is! To celebrate and to say thank-you, we treated Bri and Tristan to dinner. We went to a lovely restaurant called Magic Wok in Darwin….
Week 4 – A Little Place Called Berry Springs
Monday 15th July On a recommendation, we visited the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory today. It was really interesting! They have a space exhibit on, perfect timing for the 50th anniversary of landing on the moon! They also had displays featuring local animals, sea creatures, the difference between the wet and dry…
Week 3 – The Outback Adventure Finale
Monday 8th July We left Daly Waters after filling up with fuel, and headed to Katherine Gorge. We had a couple of stops planned for this journey, which broke the driving up for me, as it was my day of driving. Our first stop was Mataranka Hot Springs. This was a gorgeous pool of crystal…
Week 2 – The Beginning of the Outback
Monday 1st July Yesterday after saying goodbye to Diana and Grant, we got a taste of the Australian Maritime Mu-sea-um in Sydney, by exploring their free exhibits. This included some Aboriginal History, history of the first Australian woman (Kay Cottee) to explore the world by sea on her own, and info on the first journeys…
Australia
Week 1 – Sydney Saturday 22nd June We said goodbye to our parents at the airport (I cried) and got on board our lovely Virgin Atlantic flight to Hong Kong. For me, this was 12 hours of catching up on films I’d missed – Captain Marvel, Aquaman, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile to name…